Comedy gift and films by Leslie Jones

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Comedian actress Leslie Jones will become world famous at the age of 49 and will go to the world box office. She hardly deserves an Oscar, but during her career, the woman from the screen made millions of people laugh with her scripts.

Biography

In 1967, Leslie Jones was born in the American outback, such was then and still is the city of Memphis in Tennessee. But soon the girl will move with her parents to the California coast and settle in Los Angeles. It is easy to assume that it is there that the future comedian will be inspired by many examples of success and will want to be famous herself. A tall dark-skinned girl achieves her first success in basketball. So through the student team, she gets into college and gets an education. But a little later, Leslie Jones will change the basketball court to the stage, the girl decides to become a comedian in the stand-up style and work in nightclubs in the conversational genre. From then on, her only source of income will be her ability to make people laugh.

Following the example of many such newcomers, she will suffer a terrible crash and be booed on the first try. But it is worth noting her resilience, Jones will continue to make laugh.

Main role in career

For Leslie Jones "Ghostbusters" could be a good chance to increase their ratings. It was the only tape with claims to the top of the world box office in her career. The choice of such an inexperienced and not very successful actress for one of the main roles is understandable. Leslie Jones, at that time already an elderly woman, could not boast of high-profile roles, a recognizable face or good reviews from critics, but she had some advantages in the frame. The former comedian and TV comedy writer had a knack for making people laugh. The team of directors was looking for a woman without a striking appearance with comedic experience and career roles. According to the script, 4 main roles are played by women at once.

Leslie Jones, whose photo and even whose name was unknown to anyone at that time, hoped to gain new fans thanks to "Ghostbusters". But the comedy failed miserably at the box office.

Her jokes in the mouth of others

Leslie relies on her good jokes in her work, she was known as a screenwriter for comedy shows. The girl remained a popular author for a long time and gathered a huge audience with her jokes performed by actors. In parallel with this, she managed to play minor roles in comedy films with different budgets. Sometimes she was trusted with episodes in worthy films, but few people remember comedian Jones for her rare appearances in the frame.

Moreover, at the very beginning of his career, even attempts to become a comedian with his own performance did not receive public recognition. girlbooed, and since that time the future actress and screenwriter writes jokes not for herself, but trusts them to others.

Leslie's career

The comedy heroine makes her screen debut in a run-of-the-mill role in an obscure film when she was only 20 years old. Since that time, periodically with intervals of several years, he receives new invitations to shoot (sometimes in short projects). Full list of roles:

• "Home is where Hart is";
• "Guilty without guilt";
• "The Little Mermaid";
• "National security";
• "Bachelor party";
• "Internet dating";
• "Something like a business";
• "Lottery ticket";
• "The company we are trying to keep";
• "House arrest";
• "Top 5";
• "My crazy family";
• "Ghostbusters";
• "Instigators".

It is worth noting her resilience, the failure in her career as a stand-up comedian did not turn her away from the goal. A woman begins to work on television and will eventually wait for her moment of glory. It can be assumed that the former basketball player and failed comedian will still play several high-profile comedic roles. Now she is already fifty years old, but she still has strength and inspiration.